Knowledge First? [electronic resource] /
McGlynn, Aidan.author.
According to a long tradition, questions about the nature of knowledge are to be answered by analyzing it as a species of true belief. In light of the apparent failure of this approach, knowledge first philosophy takes knowledge as the starting point in epistemology. Knowledge First? offers the first overview of this approach.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Lessons from Gettier; Part I Knowledge as the 'UnexplainedExplainer'; 2 Belief; 3 Justification; 4Evidence; 5 Assertion; 6 Action; Part II Knowledge as a Mental State; 7 Luminosity; 8 Is Knowledge a Mental State?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
According to a long tradition, questions about the nature of knowledge are to be answered by analyzing it as a species of true belief. In light of the apparent failure of this approach, knowledge first philosophy takes knowledge as the starting point in epistemology. Knowledge First? offers the first overview of this approach.
Williamson, Timothy.
Epistemology.
Epistemology.